Deliverance Smith was born in Dartmouth, Bristol to John Smith and Ruhamah Kirby.[1]
He married Mary Tripp in 1690 Dartmouth Township, Bristol County, Massachusetts.
He died 30d 4m 1729 [30 Jun 1729].[2]
The following is an excerpt from Five Johns of Old Dartmouth by William A. Wing:[3]
After the Indian war there appeared in Dartmouth John Akin.
Some claim him Dutch, others Scotch, and he seems to have combined doughtiness and canniness. His dwelling place was at Nomquid Neck (now Nonquitt), and later at Colvins Neck (now Padanaram). His position in the community was that of the best type of colonial yeoman.
His first wife was Mary, daughter of Thomas Briggs, a sometime member of Peleg Sanford’s troop-of-horse, an early colonial company of cavalry. This Briggs family much-landed in old Dartmouth were closely connected with that famous Dyer family of Rhode Island. Several of John Akin’s many children married Allens– descendants of the first-comer, George Allen of Sandwich.
Captain John Akin had a martial spirit for Deliverance Smith, woefully related to the Meeting of Friends-how he with others were ordered by John Akin to exercise in “war-like posture” with the intention of being pressed into his majesty’s service in Canada.
This son of John Smith was not so easily dealt with contrary to his principles. For making a weary journey he stated his woes and views to the Governor who graciously excused this determined Friend, who returned to his home in Dartmouth delivered from anymore “trayning” in the abominated “war-like posture.”
If in military matters, John Akin opposed John Smith’s son, he was well in accord with him in their township’s struggles to maintain the dearly bought liberty of conscience.
Deliverance Smith for refusing to collect taxes to pay a “hireling minister,” was shut up in the Bristol gaol which by freak of fate had been built in part with money collected by his Father, John Smith. “We are done with the Indians and now are molested by the Quakers!” deplored an eminent divine! Later in the so-called “Great Controversy” Dartmouth absolutely refused to pay such taxes and appealing to the King their refusal was upheld. Then Captain John Akin was released from the same gaol and allowed to live out his days undisturbed after a year’s imprisonment for “conscience sake.”
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